skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Viktor, looks cool! It looks like it uses some image-to-video generation model. I would be interested to know which one you used, how you selected it, and whether you did some training/fine-tuning yourself in the process.
> backpacking with high school friends in the Catalina Islands

Channel Islands or Catalina Island. Something fishy there. Probably some OpenAI written article. Don't trust it. The new AI overlords are trying to manipulate us all.
Skynet is not even a leap now, IMO I'll be surprised if something like it doesn't happen. An AI doesn't even need to be supersmart, just able to coordinate and action faster than humans can respond, if humans already plugged it into robotic military and industrial control systems (which is already a work in progress).

Take the human out of the loop and events can cascade quickly (as anyone who has executed a script with incorrect scope knows). No new alignment problems would be necessary; jailbreaks exist, glitch tokens exist, unexpected edge case behavior exists.
When I read these headlines I wonder "Causation? Correlation?". Maybe it's addressed in the study but.....

Is it that navigating with you brain is good to prevent Alzheimers? Or are you just more likely to die from something else as a cabbie. Statically speaking your more likely to die, than average, from a traffic related accident. Maybe the all the fumes cause something else terrible that kills you, etc.

It does seem logical to me that using your brain more could help offset these dementia related diseases. But it also seems like if that made a huge difference, we'd see statistically vastly more alzheimers in "low thought" jobs like retail cashiers and people who don't work/retire early vs say... collegiate professors.
> And you think these kinds of maxims formed out of vacuums?

No, they formed in societies where it WAS necessary for most people to work in order to support the community. We needed a lot of labor to survive, so it was important to incentivize people to work hard, so our cultures developed values around work ethics.

As we move more and more towards a world where we actually don’t need everyone to work, those moral values become more and more outdated.

This is just like old religious rules around eating certain foods; in the past, we were at risk from a lot of diseases and avoiding certain foods was important for our health. Now, we don’t face those same risks so many people have moved on from those rules.
And then a full scale flying 777 from Manila folders
Drones are dangerous. First, they can take high-quality photos, second they can jam the radio communications and GPS, third, they may contain explosives.
Yes, protection from suicides and "suicides" would be critical.

How to do that while preserving freedom is an open question. If the organization and its leaders have a genuine incentive in keeping the person safe, do you think there would be fewer deaths?

Over time, I have a feeling that a set of best practices would be developed for these situations.
This is a snapshot of the decisions a small-scale hardware manufacturer has to make. AMA
You know not all content creators are out for money, right? If you want a trivial example, I am one of them. It may even shock you to learn that in the before-times, people even created content purely for fun and the entertainment of others. Wow! Hardly believable now, especially reading this post I am replying to.

That said, again, how is a small creator, which at least several nines of all creators are, supposed to scratch up the legal and financial resources to fight massive corporate interests and industrial scale fraud? Why is the onus on them, rather than the platforms that enable this kind of behavior? Like, I'm not trying to be overly sarcastic here, I'm genuinely curious how you make sense of this in your head. Is it like "oh well, that's the way of the world, fuck em?" kind of thing, or is it based on some kind of sound principle? Because the way things are do not really help anyone, except behemoth media interests, and especially hurts the quality of content online, which if I can make an assumption, you and I both consume. Which also, ironically, hurts the very platforms that (I suspect) you are trying to stan for here. Make it make sense?
Were that true, I doubt all the bribery and corruption would have been allowed to destroy their military equipment.

I’m surprised they were able to shoot a plane down at all.
The post you were responding to is specifically about the lack of consent, not whether the button is necessary.
New Law Requiring Businesses to Report Who Owns Them Is Put on Hold Again
It’s really not the collective. It’s every town and cities loonies that now have formed a small but vocal subset of the population thanks to the Internet.
> Unless I'm mistaken there are still plenty of drones being seen in NJ and they're not blasting them out of the sky.

Would these drones be running FAA-standard navigation lights and a transponder? Because that seems to be the case for most of these drone spottings :)
It is not that Russia is USSR, it is that USSR was Russia + colonized, enslaved nations, like Russian Empire before it.

The evil of USSR did was because Russia was in charge.
Part of the point of making claims -- and defending them -- in a public forum is that many more people than "the other person" get to read them. You claimed "decades" of research, and when asked where it is, mentioned one review of second hand information from a discontinued program, couched in a torrent of handwaving. I stand by my assessment of your post, and am not interested in armchair moderation. I remain of the opinion that if you could have made a compelling argument backed by research you would have. I, like a lot of people, am uncertain about this topic and would have liked to have some good research to consider, but I still don't, and you're blaming someone else for that outcome. It's not a good argument.
> Nope, i'm saying that humans are political beings, as aristoteles defined it, and any human action is by itself political.

Aristotle said politics is the study of how communities can achieve “the good life” through governance and organization. He said we are political animals (zoon politikon) who naturally form communities, such as the polis (city-state), to achieve common goals and virtue.

The idea that any human action is political cannot be attributed to Aristotle. It is also a silly and amateur assertion — to breathe is not political, to think is not political, to eat is not political, etc.
If you read this long, allegedly well researched piece:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/all-the-presidents-men-t...

tl;dr:

"Amid the endless political struggle, it is easy to lose perspective on the Smolensk Air Disaster as, first and foremost, a plane crash. Had the President not been on board to politicize the tragedy, it would have been obvious to everyone that the flight that day was a disaster waiting to happen. A poorly trained and unqualified crew was charged with flying VIPs into an ill-equipped, decrepit airport amid extremely dense fog."
The Stakes of the AI Race
>An apolitical history can also have political biases.

seems contradictory. If you lived on earth, there is no "apolitical lens" to look in. You can only try to grab a truly comprehensive view by finding and studying multiple lenses.

>The biases aren't what make political history political

If you lived in a country, or need a public press to post your findings, or are simply hidden in exposure based on some private company with their own biases, I'd say all those are connected to the political.
It depends on the organization or the team/reporting structure you find yourself in. After a few instances of thinking things out deeply, reporting both the problem and solution, only to have them sincerely acknowledged then never acted upon isn't a great pattern worth repeating. What seems to work better in those situations is to 1. complain, 2. chip away at the problem in the open, 3. socialize suggestions, 4. make small inline changes toward a north star which solves the problem. Basically change the current system to bring the solution closer to the point that someone pulls the trigger and says let's get this done.
As a math researcher, and a signatory to the Elsevier boycott, I am confused. Not by the resignation itself, but rather by what Elsevier is attempting to accomplish.

From the resignation statement, linked to in the article:

> In 2023, Elsevier unilaterally took full control over the JHE EB scientific structure and composition through their requirement that all JHE AEs be recontracted annually. This action runs counter to their assurances that AE contracts would not undermine our longstanding principle of exercising editorial control of all scholarly decisions, including recruitment and retention of the expertise necessary to oversee the review process. (...)

I had believed that Elsevier's business model was to collect golden eggs for as long as we the geese were willing to lay them. Seems to have worked out quite well for them so far.

Why is it potentially in Elsevier's interest to reach more tightly for the reins? Is this just executives being clueless, or is this some kind of clever financial strategy which I'm failing to appreciate?
Nintendo (and some others) used to do this in the early days of Let's Play. People stopped doing Nintendo Let's Plays for a while until Nintendo somewhat relented.
Elon Musk's 'social experiment on humanity': How X evolved in 2024
Having a worldview is a political act. In fact, even having a sense of right and wrong is political. My point is that humans are inherently political beings: we don’t live in a vacuum, and our values, life choices, and even our language arise from a particular social system. Everything we do is political.

Your perspective seems limited to the more common or everyday meaning of “political,” and I understand that; however, in social studies, “political” usually has a much broader scope.
Multty isn’t bad actually. I quite like it.

There’s a few other suggestions here: https://github.com/lmorg/mxtty/issues/2
Musk and Ramaswamy expose rift with MAGA loyalists over foreign tech workers
1 / sqrt(1 - v^2 / c^2)

1 / sqrt(1 - v^2) (when v is in units of c)

1 / sqrt(1 - 0.0006^2)

100.000018% or about 5 seconds per year

(I may have this reversed, but it doesn't really affect the numbers at this speed, just the sign.)
A plausible interpretation of "you don't have a right to an audience" is that people don't have to watch your dross if they don't want to, and this is the meaning which is normally meant to be implied (the motte in the motte and bailey).

Then people want to use it in the sense of, you don't have a right against someone else interfering with your interaction with your willing audience, i.e. you don't have a right not to be censored by a government or corporate oligopoly. But that is a far less defensible proposition.
CentOS Stream 10 vs. AlmaLinux 10 Beta vs. RHEL 10 Beta Performance Benchmarks
The study also shows that taxi drivers have very low lifespan, which of course is highly correlated to ower risk of death by Alzheimer's. They also ignored may other professions with similar or lower Alzheimer's risk.

Overall, it feels suspicious that they ignored other potential explanations for the data.
The first frame "we were on track for fossil fuel use to top out". That's not net zero.

All I see is a hope for net zero future, and nowhere that we were on a path to net zero.
Through what avenue does one receive the unperturbed word of said creator?
The man is a known fraudster. Why should we take anything he says on good faith to begin with?
That's the total number of incidents involving medics according to some report, some of them involve hospitals and many don't.
Yea. That doesn't sound right. I'd say Op should talk to a lawyer ASAP.

I mean, bad to agree to in the first place, but it doesn't seem like a contract where the other party is non-performant, should be enforceable.
Looks like train manufacturers are taking a page out of the playbooks of many other companies today. The practice of manufacturers remotely disabling products after the time of purchase (for whatever reason) is becoming a scourge in many other product areas. The device's manufacturer should have no say about how a product is used once money is handed over in exchange for it. This really has to stop. Regulatory agencies around the world are asleep to this problem.
> Or Polish.

Yeah... I don't know how it is these days, but my history lessons covered being attacked and under occupation for a very long time. But when Poland expanded the size, it just happened in the background. It's ok, I'm sure nobody was affected and it wasn't worth mentioning. Let's just be proud that it reached from sea to sea.
Using this line of reasoning, you might as well go back to Cain and Able.
This is why you have to do a quick back of the envelope go over of the big numbers and make sure they are at least close. Loosing track of $300K is partly your fault. The scale means you have to be looking at it as part of a big picture summary uncontaminated by technology. With Nuclear Treaties it is called "Trust but Verify" and is applicable to business cash flows. You have to be skeptical of the automated numbers that employees touch as there can be either error or worse fraud.
Anki is great.-

Same principles ...
It's only internet influencers if you grew up in the last few years and get most of your world information from them. I'm sure that's more than a roomful of people. Anthropologists have been doing it for well over a hundred years.
I sympathize with how he must feel thinking about the 777-8 and 777-9 entering service soon, displacing the 300ER...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
I didn’t see this at first, and I was fairly shaken by the potential impact on the world if their progress didn’t stop. A couple generations showed meaningful improvements, but now it seems like you’re probably correct. I’ve used these for years quite intensively to aid my work and while it’s a useful rubber duck, it doesn’t seem to yield much more beyond that. I worry a lot less about my career now. It really is a tool that creates more work for me rather than less.
I’m guessing Capchase is a financier of sorts. Capchase pays Bench for the full term up front, then the customer pays Capchase in monthly increments.

So Capchase is delivering their product, the financing. Which is why there would be a clause that the customer still owes Capchase even if Bench closes; Capchase has already paid Bench and wants to be made whole.
I dislike Elon as much (or maybe more) than the majority of this site, but I am actually not able to adequately express how small a percentage of total highway deaths 51 people is. But let me try. Over 40,000 people die in US road deaths EVERY YEAR. I was using full self driving in 2018 on a Model 3. So between then and October 2024, there were something like 250,000 people who died on the highway, and something like 249,949 were not using full self driving.

Every single one of those people were tragedies, no doubt about it. And there will always be fatalities while people use FSD. You cannot prevent it, because the world is big and full of unforeseen situations and no software will be able to deal with them all. I am convinced, though, that using FSD judiciously will save far more lives than removing it will.

The most damning thing that can be said about full self driving is that it requires good judgement from the general population, and that's asking a lot. But on the whole, I still feel it's a good trade.
Interesting, I did not know Russia assumed almost all of the USSR debt

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10nnw9s/comm...
This so reminds me of the command line I've added to a little fun tool I wrote in Borland C ~25 years ago. It was a strobe light using your monitor and I wanted something to fine tune the timings and color so I sat down a whole afternoon and added a command line interface including line editing and history. So much fun!
I don't think anyone in that space really worries about being replaced by AI, because it's not really up to the task of replacing anyone.
Rented Horrors
Oh, interesting, I didn’t know. ChatGPT “confirms” that a prototype was written in TCL
I have a friend who works at Taxfyle and they are a great alternative. They do both taxes and bookkeeping and work with software like Quickbooks and Xero where the pro does everything for you. Definitely worth checking out if you want to check their website: https://www.taxfyle.com/bookkeeping
May be a simple as being poor and not retiring makes you less likely to develop Alzheimer's.
There's both "is" and "ought" components to this conversation and we would do well to disambiguate them.

I would engage with those people you're stereotyping rather than gossiping in a comments section, I suspect you will find their ideologies quite consistent once you tease out the details.
So much is crammed into ioctl or fcntl. Especially if you are trying to treat UART, SPI, I2C, etc the same by supplying the I/O interface.
>Transistors over vacuum tubes: is that a political victory?

Sure, feel free to research how much resistance (no pun intended) there was over the mass adoption of transistors. the years of meetings and debates, the propoganda and fear tactics against transistors, the subjective claims over quality and safety of vacuum tubes.

This wasn't just some iterative upgrade like an RTX 2080 to a 3080.
> In fact, even having a sense of right and wrong is political.

You’re confusing politics with ethics. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that studies moral principles and values, focusing on what is right, wrong, good, or bad in human behavior.

Ethics focuses on morality, while politics addresses power and governance, though they often overlap in discussions of justice and societal well-being.

> Having a worldview is a political act.

Having a worldview is not inherently a political act, but it can become political when that worldview influences or interacts with societal structures, policies, or governance. A worldview shapes how you see justice, power, and societal organization, which may align with or challenge political systems or ideologies.
"Seems low" and "cost of doing business" - paraphrasing any thread about US company. Could also says "VW should be sued out of existence".

Also I genuinely think those fines were low.
Because Russia is innocent by definition. That's how Russians actually think.
I’d bet that bug has been fixed. All my other cars had the same bugs on the first day and last day of ownership, despite yearly visits for servicing.

Most annoying was my Nissan Qashqai radio which would sometimes stay on for 10 minutes after the car was parked and locked - could hear the thing from my kitchen blaring away until the deeper sleep kicked in and killed the 12v feed.
I agree except for:

> It's about embarrassment

No,it is about liability and risk management.
The conditions may be, but the development itself isn't, and the prior work which that development references and depends on likewise isn't (and had political conditions of its own quite possibly unrelated to the present ones).
I would bet that there do exist some finance firms that do use LLM as AIs for the purposes that
cesaref sketched.
I guess it doesn't matter anymore, but it took me a lot of clicks to understand what this actually is/does.
Do account execs get a heads up about a shutdown? If not, maybe there wasn't a good reason to mention the account exec by name here.
This seems really sudden. Is there any other info besides a handful of bullets?

This was one of the few ROMS that still supported my old Android.
They always return the same output for the same input. That is how tests are done for llama.cpp, for example.

To get variety, you give each person a different seed. That way each user gets consistent answers but different than each other. You can add some randomness in each call if you don’t want the same person getting the same output for the same input.

It would be impossible to test and benchmark llama.cpp et al otherwise!

By the time you get to a UI someone has made these decisions for you.

It’s just math underneath!

Hope this helps.
Building a Poker range viewer and build that meet users expectations
Hi HN! I built Poker Toolkit, a tool for poker players to build, test, and memorize their ranges (strategic hand selections). Here's my journey and what I learned:
The Problem:
Poker players need to memorize complex strategic decisions for different game situations. These decisions are represented as "ranges" - sets of hands they would play in specific scenarios. While existing tools help build these ranges, players struggled to effectively memorize and test their knowledge.
Development Journey:
I started building this for the French poker community, focusing first on the core range builder. Early users highlighted a critical need: they wanted not just to build ranges, but to actually test if they remembered them correctly. This led to developing a testing system that works like having a coach check your knowledge.
Technical Challenges:

Building an intuitive UI for hand selection that works smoothly on both desktop and mobile
Implementing efficient algorithms for range vs range equity calculations
Creating a testing system that could handle complex range comparisons while providing meaningful feedback
Balancing feature richness with performance, especially for the equity calculator

User-Driven Features:

Range builder interface that makes it easy to select and visualize hand combinations
Testing system: players input what they think their range should be, and get instant feedback
Range vs range equity calculator for strategic analysis
Integration of mental game concepts based on professional methodologies

Business Insights:

Started in French market to validate the concept
User feedback drove the expansion to English-speaking market
Offering a free tier proved crucial for adoption
Players value tools that help them learn, not just build

The tool is live at [your website] with a free tier available.
I'm particularly interested in feedback from the HN community on:

Technical implementation suggestions
UI/UX improvements
Additional features that could be valuable

Would love to hear your thoughts and answer any questions!
Trump Backers Battle Online over Skilled Immigrants
I wonder: who will be our Serena Butler? [1]

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Serena_Butler
Bias is often just a product of human cognition: i.e. one of the cognitive biases. Your environment is political, so your cognitive biases are tinged with politics.
South Korea greenlights the largest semiconductor hub
The author declares that "software composability" is the solution as though that is a given fact. Composability is as much a dead end as the AI he describes. Decades of attempts at formal composability have not yielded improvements in software quality outside of niche applications. It's a neat idea, but as you scale the complexity explodes making such systems as opaque and untestable as any software. I think the author needs to spend more time actually writing code and less time thinking about it.
Shout out to the video team, for this super cute tower of minis next to the Christmas tree.

https://x.com/exolabs/status/1872444906851229814

Only just considering now that Strix Halo could help fill this gap that Mac chips with their huge memory bandwidth enjoy. 256GB systems shouldn't be hard to build!!

MI300a APU seems not popular but for consumers, this mix of big CPU and GPU seems perhaps quite compelling!
Because useful AI requires massive spending on compute to train.
Maybe I'm naive, but I'll gladly take small compensation hit in exchange for not hating my job.
The opposite, actually. Increasing speed is the very thing that brings it closer to the Sun.

To clarify a bit... The gravity assists from Venus actually decrease the probes instantaneous speed, which allows it to fall closer to the Sun. The act of falling towards the Sun is what generates speed, with more speed being generated during closer approaches.